Screening impotence by home nocturnal tumescence self-monitoring.
Twenty subjects complaining of impotence were assessed using nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT), neurological, vascular and hormonal analysis. Subjects undertook NPT in both home and hospital environments: 10 hospital first and 10 home first. There were high levels of agreement between diagnosis using NPT in the two conditions and diagnosis from the physiological tests. There was a high correlation of frequency of erections between the home and hospital conditions, together with a high consecutive night reliability when using the monitor in the home condition (r = .94, p = .001).
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New Medical School, University of Liverpool.
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010410:Penile Erection; D010991:Plethysmography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*